December 23, 2020

• Why Scandinavian Prisons Are Superior – The Atlantic">[Title not available]
• ASAP Rocky: Sweden prison boss defends jail conditions – BBC News">[Title not available]
• How Biden Should Investigate Trump – The Atlantic
• How an obscure British PC maker invented ARM and changed the world | Ars Technica">[Title not available]
• Democrats see Republicans gaining among key voting groups, despite Biden’s win. – The Washington Post">[Title not available]
• [Title not available]
• UberGallery – The simple PHP photo gallery
• The ‘Red Slime’ Lawsuit That Could Sink Right-Wing Media

December 22, 2020

• Finding my place
• MacKiDo/History/History_TT">[Title not available]
• Yes, ‘elites’ support covid restrictions. So do working-class Americans. – The Washington Post">[Title not available]
• The Mystery of the Disappearing Manuscripts – The New York Times">[Title not available]

December 21, 2020

• Exclusive: Apple targets car production by 2024 and eyes “next level” battery technology – sources
• The Next-Generation Amiga That Never Materialized Just Went Up For Pre-Order
• More than 1.3 million Georgians have already voted in the Senate runoffs, rivaling general election turnout – The Washington Post">[Title not available]
• Ex-Houston cop in anti-voter fraud operation targeted a Hispanic worker in violent incident, police say – The Washington Post">[Title not available]

December 19, 2020

• Courthouse Tree – Greensburg, Indiana – Atlas Obscura">[Title not available]
• The Unmaking Of Rabbit – The New York Times">[Title not available]
• Court service apologises after black barrister assumed to be defendant | Judiciary | The Guardian
• Poll finds supermajority of Iowa voters support mask mandate | Govt-and-politics | qctimes.com">[Title not available]
• Poll finds supermajority of Iowa voters support mask mandate | Govt-and-politics | qctimes.com">[Title not available]
• Biden’s Call for ‘National Mask Mandate’ Gains Traction in Public Health Circles – The New York Times">[Title not available]
• Biden’s Call for ‘National Mask Mandate’ Gains Traction in Public Health Circles – The New York Times">[Title not available]
• Biden mask mandate: How a national COVID face mask rule would work">[Title not available]
• Why every state should have a mask mandate, in 4 charts – Vox">[Title not available]
• Bipartisan majority supports statewide mask mandates, poll finds – POLITICO">[Title not available]
• Support for national mask mandate slips to 75 percent: poll | TheHill">[Title not available]
• Games Made Under Crunch Conditions Don’t Deserve ‘Best Direction’ Awards">[Title not available]
• Does HIIT burn belly fat? – The Washington Post">[Title not available]
• Some Republicans Finally Face ‘Their Biggest Fear: Reality,’ Colbert Says – The New York Times">[Title not available]

December 18, 2020

• Wikipedia:Don’t be high-maintenance – Wikipedia">[Title not available]
• Amazon Alabama warehouse workers allowed to vote on unionization, National Labor Relations Board rules – The Washington Post">[Title not available]
• Microsoft (MSFT) Is Designing Its Own Chips in Move Away From Intel (INTC) – Bloomberg">[Title not available]
• U.S. charges China-based Zoom employee for disrupting Tiananmen commemoration event – Axios">[Title not available]
• Technology – Bloomberg">[Title not available]
• Grave of Johnny Ringo – Dragoon, Arizona – Atlas Obscura">[Title not available]
• Anglesey farmer skewered taxi with tractor in kebab row – BBC News">[Title not available]
• ‘Desert Oracle’ Is the Spooky Exploration of the Southwest We Need

December 16, 2020

• Leaving the Grace of This World | Outside Online
• The Stranger in the Shelter | Outside Online

December 15, 2020

• The Lost Year
• How a D.C. Bar Became the ‘Haven’ for the Proud Boys – POLITICO">[Title not available]
• Opinion | How do we hold the traitors to democracy accountable? – The Washington Post">[Title not available]
• Everything You’ve Heard About Chastity Belts Is a Lie – Atlas Obscura">[Title not available]
• Pro-Trump rally descends into chaos as Proud Boys roam D.C. looking to fight
• No One Knows How Deep Russia’s Hacking Rampage Goes
• Attorney General William Barr to step down
• Michigan congressman quits GOP over Trump’s election fights

December 14, 2020

• Senate Republicans shun House GOP bid to overturn the election
• Bill Cassidy warns GOP ‘can’t stand if we are divided’
• Supreme Court won’t revive Kansas voting law requiring proof of citizenship
• Opinion | Trump’s rage at Georgia’s GOP governor bodes badly for Trumpism’s future
• Once and for all: Is it safe to use LED lighting? – The Jerusalem Post">[Title not available]
• LED lights damage eyes and disturb sleep, European health authority warns – CNN">[Title not available]

December 13, 2020

• Supreme Court Shuts Door On Trump Election Prospects : NPR">[Title not available]
• America’s electoral future: The coming generational transformation">[Title not available]
• Ramstein Air Base In Germany Experiences Potential Incoming Missile Scare
• Deadliest place in America: They shrugged off the pandemic, then their family and friends started dying
• The best meteor shower of 2020 is about to light up our atmosphere
• Manish Mehta, the Daily News’s divisive Jets writer, loses his place on the beat – The Washington Post">[Title not available]
• Facebook Employees Leaving As Hate Speech Festers">[Title not available]
• Juxtapoz Magazine – My Life Is Pointless: A Conversation with Joan Cornellà">[Title not available]
• Castles in the Sky — The Atavist Magazine">[Title not available]
• The Skeletons at the Lake | The New Yorker">[Title not available]
• Zippie – Wikipedia">[Title not available]

December 12, 2020

• Why has DNA evidence not yet unmasked the Zodiac Killer? | by Charles Russo | Medium">[Title not available]
• Supreme Court Shuts Door On Trump Election Prospects : NPR">[Title not available]
• Carolyn Hax: He’s a great guy, except for the bigotry – The Washington Post">[Title not available]

December 11, 2020

• Edinburg High football deals with player’s assault on referee – The Washington Post">[Title not available]
• The Republicans who aren’t sold on Trump’s last-ditch effort to overturn the election – The Washington Post">[Title not available]
• People’s Groups and Patterns in Neighborhood Surveillance: Another Tool in State Control Over Daily Life | 38 North: Informed Analysis of North Korea">[Title not available]
• Why the Zodiac Killer Has Never Been Identified – Biography">[Title not available]
• Zodiac ‘340 Cipher’ cracked by code experts 51 years after it was sent to the S.F. Chronicle – SFChronicle.com">[Title not available]
• Source: The CIA’s Private Suburb
• Apple and Google to Stop X-Mode From Collecting Location Data From Users’ Phones – WSJ">[Title not available]
• Wormable code-execution flaw in Cisco Jabber has a severity rating of 9.9 out of 10 | Ars Technica">[Title not available]
• Working from home at 25MHz: You could do worse than a Quadra 700 (even in 2020) | Ars Technica">[Title not available]
• Something Was Wrong. My Nightgown Was in Flames

December 10, 2020

• Keppel Hill Reservoir
• How a New Hampshire libertarian utopia was foiled by bears
• Tony Hsieh’s American Tragedy: The Self-Destructive Last Months Of The Zappos Visionary
• Ivy Bells: A Spyhunter Series Story | by Greg Nichols | Truly*Adventurous | Dec, 2020 | Medium
• Folklore.org: Calculator Construction Set
• Folklore.org: Good Earth
• Folklore.org: Joining Apple Computer
• Quiet, Please – Wikipedia">[Title not available]
• 17 states tell Supreme Court they support Texas bid to reverse Biden win
• What Explains the Decline of Serial Killers?
• When the U.S. Kept Losing Nuclear Bombs | Atlas Obscura

December 9, 2020

• Castles in the Sky — The Atavist Magazine
• GOP lawyer resigns over treatment of Florida data analyst">[Title not available]
• Your Old Radiator Is a Pandemic-Fighting Weapon

December 8, 2020

• The Appealing and Potentially Lethal Delicacy That Is Fugu – The New York Times">[Title not available]
• Source: Installing NextStep OS (OpenStep) in VirtualBox – Stuff Jason Does
• Former Israeli space security chief says aliens exist, humanity not ready – The Jerusalem Post">[Title not available]
• Walter De Maria, The Lightning Field | Visit Our Locations & Sites | Visit | Dia">[Title not available]
• Utah monolith: Internet sleuths got there, but its origins are still a mystery – BBC News">[Title not available]
• Utah monolith – Wikipedia">[Title not available]
• Behind the Paper That Led to a Google Researcher’s Firing | WIRED">[Title not available]
• Pentagon blocks visits to military spy agencies by Biden transition team – The Washington Post">[Title not available]
• A Peek Into Vivian Maier’s Family Album – The New York Times">[Title not available]
• Digging Deeper Into Vivian Maier’s Past – The New York Times">[Title not available]
• Neutron Dance – Wikipedia">[Title not available]
• Why Sun’s logo is on the back of Facebook’s sign – Business Insider">[Title not available]
• When Reagan was shot, who was ‘in control’ at the White House? – The Washington Post">[Title not available]
• Highway 20 (Israel) – Wikipedia">[Title not available]
• John Gage – Wikipedia">[Title not available]
• Bill Joy – Wikipedia">[Title not available]

December 7, 2020

• Mystery Couple Found in a Roll of Film From Nearly 70 Years Ago – The New York Times">[Title not available]

December 6, 2020

• Apple Is About To Lay Down Its TV Cards | TechCrunch">[Title not available]

December 5, 2020

• Shattered Glass – Variety">[Title not available]

December 4, 2020

• How a ‘ruthless playboy businessman’ in Hong Kong became a transgender woman | South China Morning Post">[Title not available]
• United bans alleged COVID-19-positive couple who took flight from SFO to Hawaii
• Less than half of Americans know that alcohol is a carcinogen. Big Booze wants to keep it that way.

December 3, 2020

• Covid-19 Live Updates: C.D.C. Warns Against Holiday Travel – The New York Times">[Title not available]

December 2, 2020

• Georgia elections official rebukes Trump after threats to workers – CBS News">[Title not available]
• John Anthony Walker – Wikipedia">[Title not available]
• China likely to attempt its Chang’e 5 Moon landing on Tuesday | Ars Technica">[Title not available]
• Nikola stock plunges as company cancels Badger pickup truck | Ars Technica">[Title not available]
• David Prowse, the original Darth Vader, is dead at 85 | Ars Technica">[Title not available]
• Innovative Macintosh System 1.0 | Low End Mac">[Title not available]
• Ethiopia says it’s captured Mekele, capital of its rebellious Tigray region – Vox">[Title not available]
• Iran promises revenge for assassinated nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh – Vox">[Title not available]
• Georgia Senate runoffs: 9 questions about Perdue, Ossoff, Loeffler, and Warnock – Vox">[Title not available]
• Arecibo radio telescope’s massive instrument platform has collapsed | Ars Technica">[Title not available]
• Trump Races to Weaken Environmental and Worker Protections, and Implement Other Last-Minute Policies, Before Jan. 20 — ProPublica">[Title not available]

December 1, 2020

• Remembering the Glory Days of the Video Rental Store | Atlas Obscura
• Hyperland, Intermedia, and the Web That Never Was — Are.na
• Why You Should Slack Off to Get Some Work Done
• Mark Twain & Helen Keller’s Special Friendship: He Treated Me Not as a Freak, But as a Person Dealing with Great Difficulties | Open Culture">[Title not available]

November 30, 2020

• Covid in the U.S.: Latest Map and Case Count – The New York Times">[Title not available]
• Most Brits just won’t wear face masks — here’s why">[Title not available]
• David Prowse, the original Darth Vader, is dead at 85 | Ars Technica">[Title not available]
• No Longer in Shadows, Pentagon’s U.F.O. Unit Will Make Some Findings Public – The New York Times">[Title not available]
• Tom Forcade – Wikipedia">[Title not available]

November 29, 2020

• AXIL LAUNCHES SUN-COMPATIBLE AXIL245 AND AXIL320 WITH CHOICE OF HYPERSPARC OR SUPERSPARC, AND OFFERS SERVER – Computer Business Review">[Title not available]
• Utah Monolith Mysteriously Disappears From Desert – The New York Times">[Title not available]
• Protest against ATI nearly led to the arrest of RMS — Free Software Foundation — Working together for free software">[Title not available]
• Kevin Hughes (Internet pioneer) – Wikipedia">[Title not available]

November 28, 2020

• Utah Monolith Is a Weird Surprise in the Desert – The New York Times">[Title not available]
• The New York City Farm Colony – Staten Island, New York – Atlas Obscura">[Title not available]
• Abandoned NYC: The Staten Island Farm Colony’s Disturbing Secrets – Untapped New York">[Title not available]
• Urban Legends">[Title not available]
• AOC urges Democrats to ’not fight each other’ – POLITICO">[Title not available]
• Inside Donald Trump’s 2020 undoing – POLITICO">[Title not available]
• That Japanese Woodcut (and Happy Birthday, Mac!) – Mark Simonson">[Title not available]
• Did John McCracken Make That Monolith in Utah? – The New York Times">[Title not available]
• Immunity to the Coronavirus May Last Years, New Data Hint – The New York Times">[Title not available]
• How You Can Impact the Georgia Senate Runoff Election">[Title not available]

November 27, 2020

• The Story Behind “Alice’s Restaurant,” Arlo Guthrie’s Song That’s Now a Thanksgiving Tradition
• Meet Spring-Heeled Jack, the Leaping Devil That Terrorized Victorian England – Atlas Obscura">[Title not available]
• Our nanny, the photographer Vivian Maier | Family | The Guardian">[Title not available]
• Opinion | Happiness Won’t Save You
• Should We Be Drinking Less?
• What I Learned by Eating Only Meat for a Month
• Learning to Forgive My Distant Father | The Walrus
• Go to bed! Brain researchers warn that lack of sleep is a public health crisis.
• How an Olympic Hopeful Robbed 26 Banks on His Bike
• Man Spends $1.4 Million On Game Character, Which His Friend Then Accidentally Sold For Only $552
• While seizing thousands of artifacts from an Indiana home, FBI makes “staggering” discovery
• Con artist scams Alabama town out of millions with fake business incubator
• Flickr Fabulous
• Christopher Hasson, Coast Guard Officer, Plotted Attacks at His Desk, Filings Say (Published 2019)
• In San Francisco, Making a Living From Your Billionaire Neighbor’s Trash (Published 2019)
• Tweak New Twitter
• How China Turned a City Into a Prison (Published 2019)
• Federal Judge Rules New York’s Dumb ‘Gravity Knife’ Law Is Unconstitutionally Vague
• I Put a Note in the Suggestion Box and it Changed My Life
• [Title not available]
• Money to Launder? Here’s How (Hint: Find a Bank)
• America’s backwards coronavirus strategy
• The Nazi Werewolves Who Terrorized Allied Soldiers at the End of WWII
• Opinion | How to Make New York as Progressive on Criminal Justice as Texas (Published 2019)
• ‘To Catch a Predator’ host Chris Hansen charged with bouncing two checks for $13,000 purchase
• The Long, Violent Fall of Tanning Mogul Todd Beckman

November 26, 2020

• Large Metal Monolith Mysteriously Appears In Remote Region Of Utah’s Red Rock Country
• How the Sears catalog dominated the market and influenced American history – New York Daily News">[Title not available]
• Michael J Fox: ‘Every step now is a frigging math problem, so I take it slow’ | Michael J Fox | The Guardian">[Title not available]
• Crispin Glover: ‘When you raise questions people say, ‘You’re crazy’’ | Crispin Glover | The Guardian">[Title not available]
• Back to the Future writer: bad guy Biff was based on Donald Trump | Back To The Future | The Guardian">[Title not available]
• [Title not available]
• CDC celebrates Biden transition, plans “rebuilding,” resumes press briefings

November 25, 2020

• Blood on Our Hands
• The Fist of God
• “We Are Dead, Gone, and Free”: The End of a Frontier Couple
• The Hospital Best-Prepared for COVID-19 Is Nearly Overwhelmed – The Atlantic">[Title not available]
• Inside the Frenzy to Conquer the Cannonball Run | GQ">[Title not available]

November 24, 2020

• Trump tells GSA that Biden transition can begin

November 23, 2020

• That time on Thanksgiving when “debris” threatened the space shuttle
• Undersheriff, Apple security chief, businessman indicted in bribery schemes
• Incels and the rise of sex trolling | CyberNews
• Walmart-exclusive router and others sold on Amazon & eBay contain hidden backdoors to control devices | CyberNews
• IBM Apologizes For Firing Computer Pioneer For Being Transgender…52 Years Later
• ‘Intersection Point Zero’
• [Title not available]
• Officials: This Is What Happens When You Don’t… – Fake Fake News">[Title not available]
• ‘This Is A Perfect Situation For Me,’ Trump Says… – Fake Fake News">[Title not available]
• On the Death of a Cofounder. Here’s the rough chronology: On April… | by Ryan Wegner | Nov, 2020 | Medium">[Title not available]
• Do These A.I.-Created Fake People Look Real to You? – The New York Times">[Title not available]
• Bielefeld Conspiracy – Wikipedia">[Title not available]